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Trivia: Musical Terms
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1. A successive transposition and repetition of a phrase at different pitches.
Sequence
Klangfarbenmelodie
Tritone
Tuning
2. A lighthearted piece - written in several movements - usually as background music for a social function.
Medley
Grazioso
Resonance
Serenade
3. Music that is easy to listen to and understand.
Phrase
Part
Obbligato
Accessible
4. When several strings are tuned to harmonically related pitches - all strings vibrate when only one of the strings is struck.
Major
Resonance
Cadenza
Tune
5. The period of music history which dates from the mid 1700's to mid 1800's. The music was spare and emotionally reserved - especially when compared to Romantic and Boroque music.
Rondo
Classical
Rhythm
Rococo
6. Singing in unison - texts in a free rhythm. Similar to the rhythm of speech.
Trill
Chant
Measure
Unison
7. A symbol indicating to play loud.
Forte
Homophony
Recapitulation
Partita
8. Suite of Baroque dances.
Partita
Ornaments
Fifth
Recital
9. Two notes that differ in name only. The notes occupy the same position.For example: C sharp and D flat.
Pizzicato
Da Capo
Opera
EnharmonicInterval
10. A direction to play lively and fast.
Recapitulation
Orchestration
Chant
Allegro
11. A song or hymn celebrating Christmas.
Waltz
Chromatic scale
Tuning
Carol
12. Often used in overtures - a composition that uses passages from other movements of the composition in its entirety.
Leading note
Medley
Obbligato
Reed
13. A rhythmic succession of musical tones - a melody for instruments and voices.
Medley
EnharmonicInterval
Septet
Tune
14. In sheet music - a symbol at the beginning of the staff defining the pitch of the notes found in that particular staff.
Clef
Grave
Time Signature
Notation
15. A composition written for eight instruments.
Whole-tone scale
Quintet
Adagio
Octet
16. A set of four musicians who perform a composition written for four parts.
Opera
Measure
Quartet
Piano
17. A melodic or - sometimes a harmonic idea presented in a musical form.
Theme
Cadence
Scherzo
Choir
18. Refers to the tuning of an instrument.
Hymn
Temperament
Sonatina
Adagio
19. A repeated phrase.
Ostinato
Staccato
Conductor
Polytonality
20. Introduction to an opera or other large musical work.
Counterpoint
Leading note
Tempo
Overture
21. The element of music pertaining to time - played as a grouping of notes into accented and unaccented beats.
Rhythm
Expressionism
Scherzo
Musicology
22. A reprise.
Temperament
Chorus
Modulation
Recapitulation
23. Arrangement of music for a combined number of instruments.
Chant
Root
Tonality
Instrumentation
24. A direction in sheet music indicating the tempo is to be very fast.
Scale
Cantabile
Modes
Presto
25. Three note chords consisting of a root - third - and fifth.
Ornaments
Triad
Polyphony
Maestro
26. A piece of music written in triple time. Also an old French dance.
Courante
Pizzicato
Septet
Cantabile
27. A 17th century dance written in Quadruple time - always beginning on the third beat of the measure.
Suite
Gavotte
Romantic
Fourth
28. Rapid alternation between notes that are a half tone or whole tone apart.
Key
Maestro
Allegro
Trill
29. A symbol indicating the note is to be raised by one semitone.
Sharp
Elegy
Motif
Pizzicato
30. A quick 20th century dance written in double time.
Development
Rigaudon
Nonet
Song cycle
31. Creating variation pitch in a note by quickly alternating between notes.
Motif
Vibrato
Orchestration
Neoclassical
32. Music written for a lively French dance for two performers written in triple time.
Encore
Galliard
Recitative
Modes
33. A dance written in triple time - where the accent falls on the first beat of each measure.
Waltz
Slide
Part
Key signature
34. A scale consisting of only whole-tone notes. Such a scale consists of only 6 notes.
Classicism
Whole-tone scale
Polyphony
Relative major and minor
35. A combination of two or more staves on which all the notes are vertically aligned and performed simultaneously in differing registers and instruments.
Key signature
System
Relative major and minor
Neoclassical
36. A style of singing which is characterized by the easy and flowing tone of the composition.
Treble
Sextet
Resonance
Cantabile
37. Music written to be sung or played in unison.
Instrumentation
Homophony
Dynamics
Classicism
38. Combining a number of individual but harmonizing melodies. Also known as counterpoint.
Polyphony
Prelude
Introduction
Suite
39. One of the two modes of the tonal system. The minor mode can be identified by the dark - melancholic mood.
Root
Neoclassical
Soprano
Minor
40. A glissando or portamento. Also refers to the moving part of a trombone.
Portamento
Slide
Tonality
Waltz
41. A 17th century dance written in Quadruple time - always beginning on the third beat of the measure.
Gavotte
Orchestration
Glee
Time Signature
42. Initially an improvised cadence by a soloist; later becoming an elaborate and written out passage in an aria or concerto - featuring the skills of an instrumentalist or vocalist.
Quintet
Cadenza
Rigaudon
Intermezzo
43. The retuning of a stringed instrument in order to play notes below the ordinary range of the instrument or to produce an usual tone color.
Polyphony
Scordatura
Klangfarbenmelodie
Forte
44. Refers to the tuning of an instrument.
March
Temperament
Triplet
Tonal
45. Suite of Baroque dances.
Leitmotif
Vibrato
Movement
Partita
46. Sliding between two notes.
Presto
Elegy
Key
Glissando
47. First developed in the 8th century - methods of writing music.
Soprano
Octet
Triplet
Notation
48. Combination of two or more keys being played at the same time.
Reprise
Gregorian Chant
Polytonality
Duet
49. A solo concert with or without accompaniment.
Song cycle
Recital
Key
Concerto
50. Group of singers in a chorus.
Choir
Gregorian Chant
Cantata
Stretto